Quotes
Natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning by study, and studies themselves do give forth directions too much at large, except they be bounded In by experience.
Bacon, Of Studies, Essays
Innate abilities are like naturally occurring plants, which must be modified through learning; however, if learning itself is not constrained by practice, it will inevitably have mixed and unfocused directions. Purpose.
Bacon: "Essay·On Learning"
As many languages ??as he has, as many friends, as many arts and trades, so many times is he a man.
Emerson, Culture, The Conduct of Life
Try your best to master various languages, make various friends, and master various skills and industries. Only by working hard can you become a complete person. .
Emerson: "On Culture"
In a world as empirical as ours, a youngster who does not know what he Is good at will not be sure what he is good for．
Edgar Friedenberg, The Vanishing Adolescent
In our world of experience, a young man who does not know what he is good at will not know exactly what his worth is.
Edgar Friedenberg: "The Vanishing Teenager"
Skills vary with the man． We must tread a straight path and strive by that which is born in us．
Pindar, Odes
Skills vary from person to person, and we must rely on our innate qualifications to guide us to move forward persistently and strive continuously.
Pindar: "Ode"
A man must not deny his manifest abilities, for that is to evade his obligations.
Robert Louis Stevenson, The Treasure of Franchard
One should not deny one's obvious abilities, for that would be an evasion of responsibility.
Robert Louis Stevenson: "Franchard's Treasure"
we may judge a man's ability by three things: by what he has done (including the impression he has made on others), by what he himself appears to believe he can do, by our own dramatic imagination, based on his immediate personality, of what he might do. If these do not agree it is prudent to observe him further．
Charles Horton Cooley, Life and the Student
We can judge a person's ability based on three things: what he has done (including the impression he leaves on others), He "thinks what he can do, and infers what he might do based on his personality. If the three cannot be unified, further observation should be made cautiously.
Charles Horton Curry: "Life and Student》
We cannot change anything unless we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate it, it oppresses.
Jung, Psychological Reflections
We must first accept it before we can change it. Condemnation does not free us from trouble, it only makes it worse.
Jung: Essays in Analytical Psychology
The spirit of rejection finds its support in the consciousness of separateness; the spirit of acceptance finds its base in the consciousness of unity． From the consciousness of division, tolerance and generosity originate from the consciousness of unity and harmony.
Rabindranath Tagore: "Letter to a Friend"
A man dies still If he has done nothing, as one who has. done much.
Homer, Iliad
It is better to fight for life than to die doing nothing.
Homer: "The Iliad". p> Let the end try the man.
Shakespeare, Henry IV
Let the end try the man.
Shakespeare: "Henry IV"
Seek not proud riches, but such as thou mayest get justly, use soberly, distribute cheerfully, and leave contentedly.
Bacon, Of Riches, Essays
Don’t seek enviable wealth, but pursue the state of acquiring wealth properly, using it soberly, giving it happily and being contented. give up.
Bacon: "Essay·On Wealth"
In the arena of human life the honors and rewards fall to those who show their good qualities in action．
Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics
In the arena of human life, honor and reward favor those who are good at action.
Aristotle: Ethics
A thought which does not result in an action is nothing much, and an action which does not proceed from a thought is nothing at all.
Georges Bernanos, The Last Essays of Georges Bernanos
Thoughts are meaningless if they do not lead to action, and actions are meaningless if they do not originate from thoughts.
George Bernano: "The Final Papers of George Bernano"
No matter how much faculty of idle seeing a man has, the step from knowing to doing is rarely taken．
Emerson, Power, The Conduct of Life
No matter how strong a person’s observation ability is, the step from cognition to action is always difficult to cross.
Emerson: "On Power"
A life of action and danger moderates the dread of death. It not only gives us fortitude to bear pain, but teaches us at every step the precarious tenure on which we hold our present being．
William Hazllit, Table Talk
A life filled with action and danger will lessen the fear of death. It not only gives us the fortitude to endure pain, but also guides us to grasp the uncertain present.
William Hazlitt: "Talk"
Action is thought tempered by illusion.
Elbert Hubbard, The Philistine
Action is thought tempered by fantasy.
Albert Hubbard: "The Burghers"
The quality of a life is determined by its activities.
Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics
The quality of life is determined by its activity.
Aristotle: "Ethics"
Make up your mind to act decidedly and take the consequences. No good is ever done in this world by hesitation． Thomas Henry Huxley, Aphorisms and Reflections
Be determined to act decisively and face the consequences. Indecisiveness accomplishes nothing in this world.
Thomas Huxley: "Epigrams and Introspection"
We cannot seek or attain health, wealth, learning, justice or kindness in general. Action is always specific, concrete, individualized, unique.
John Dewey, Reconstruction in Philosophy
General abstractions of health, wealth, learning, justice, or kindness cannot be found or obtained. Actions are always specific, specific, personal, and unique.
John Dewey: "The Reconstruction of Philosophy"
I have frequently experienced myself the mood in which I felt that all is vanity, I have emerged from it not by means of any philosophy , but owing to some imperative necessity of action.
Betrand Russell, The Conqust of Happiness
I often fall into a mood where I feel like everything is illusion. What freed me from it was not philosophy but the need to take action.
Bertrand Russell: "The Conquest of Happiness"
Even if it doesn’t work, there is something healthy and invigorating about direct action．
Henry Miller, Remember to Remember
Even if direct action does not work, it is full of healthy vitality.
Henry Miller: "Memory for Memory's Sake"
A life will be successful or not according to as the power of accommodation is equal to or unequal to the strain of fusing and adjusting internal and external changes．
Samuel Butler, The Way of All Flesh
Success in life depends on one's ability to adapt to the burden of integrating and adjusting to internal and external changes.
Seychel Butler Jr.; "The Path of All Living Beings"
Adapt or perish, now as ever, is Nature’s inexorable imperative.
H. G. Wells, Mind at the End of Its Tether
The fittest survive and the unfit perish. This is the law of nature that never changes.
H. J. Wells: "The Donkey in Guizhou"
If you want to slip Into a round hole, you must make a ball of yourself．
George Eliot, The Mill on the Floss
If you want to drill into a round hole, you must turn yourself into a sphere.
George Eliot: "The Mill on the Floss"
Always we like those who admire us, but we do not always like those whom we admire.
La Rochefoucauld, Maxims
We always like those who appreciate us, but not necessarily the people we admire.
La Rochefoucauld: "Collection of Moral Aphorisms"
Let every man be respected as an individual and no man idolized． It is an irony of fate that I myself have been the recipient of excessive admiration and reverence from my fellow-beings, through no fault, and no merit of my own.
Einstein, Ideas and Opinions
Let everyone be respected as an individual, but let no one be an idol. It is a mockery of fate that I receive from everyone too much respect and respect, for it is neither due to my faults nor to my virtues.
Einstein: "Thoughts and Opinions"
The beauty of the soul shines out when a man bears with composure one heavy mischance after another, not because he does not feel them, but because he is a man of high and heroic temper．
Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics
People calmly bear the disasters that follow, not because of dullness, but because of noble and heroic qualities. At this time, despite the misfortune, , the beauty of the soul still radiates brilliant brilliance.
Aristotle: "Ethics"
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